Icon · Guildarkivet

Stormrage · Wildhammer · Kazzak

The Guild Archive

Founded in March 2006 around a simple idea: ambitious raiding and real life should be able to coexist. From Stormrage to Wildhammer and Kazzak, Icon has lived in the online world ever since.

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Four doors into the past

The guild history lives on

The original structure is preserved. Advertising, tracking, login barriers and broken dynamic functions are gone.

01Discussions

Forum

1,186 threads and 6,932 posts from the guild's history.

Open →02Screenshots & gatherings

Gallery

272 preserved images across 41 albums.

Open →03The people

Members

143 member pages and the historical roster.

Open →04Icon in action

Videos

49 films preserved locally and free of advertising.

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Raid nights · guild meetings · glorious nonsense

Memories

The bosses mattered. The people mattered more. A rotating glimpse of Icon through screenshots and voices saved from the old forum.

Icon raiding together — “Lol, I don't mind being an asshole — had lots of practice!”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

“I heard you guys had fun! Ye, let's see those pictures!”

— Docile

Elderberries raiding with Icon — “Okay, okay — I will show you my sexy UI.”
— Elderberries

An Icon raid killshot — “Go kill a few new bosses tonight… gl.”
— Elgringø

Icon members meeting outside the game — “Hotel is fine as long as I'm sharing a room with Iconians… :) ”
— Elderberries

Icon celebrating Cataclysm progression — “Hahaha… you're supposed to kill them, not have a tea party!”
— Cowazaki

Icon beneath the moon — “I think socials like that are awesome to have in Icon, so I vote yes.”
— Prinsy

A dramatic Icon raid moment — “Bet Doc is not looking forward to the Heroic elevator boss. ;)”
— Naku

Docile in-game — “No objection after his answer — nice and honest. Go get him!”
— Docile

A Bastion of Twilight memory — “This could feel like the old times!”
— Fibre / Celvink

Another night raiding with Icon — “Same thing happens every expansion — Icon always bounces back!”
— deathhulk

Icon facing an endless encounter — “They're obviously making their own killshots nowadays. :D”
— Morkai

Harder with the Icon raid — “After almost two years of farming, it finally dropped! :D”
— Harder

Icon fighting through a fiery raid encounter — “I'm raiding for my people.”
— Haz / Hazalrus

Icon members travelling together — “Let's see if we can prove skill > gear.”
— Aramaat

Icon standing together after a kill — “Yeah, I'd like to upload pictures of the most important things in my life… but haven't a clue how. Fail!”
— Cherrypíe

Icon after defeating Megaera — “There's nothing more to say than two! Imagine when we start heroic progress… OMFG.”
— Harder

Icon gathered in a snowy landscape — “Sad to see you go, bro. Good luck IRL! :D”
— Chopporz

Cowl and fellow Icon members in-game — “No worries — hijack all you want, Cowl.”
— Docile

Icon at Blackrock Foundry — “Hog sings Tina Turner on Vent during raid — at least thirty seconds!”
— Keylla

Icon in the middle of a boss encounter — “Clearly that's just Pandaren pandering!”
— Shalcker

An Icon Siege of Orgrimmar memory — “If I manage to slip enough painkillers in her drink to make her sleep during the raid, I might join you. :) ”
— Ammenti

Suikerspin raiding with Icon — “Saw it live — epic!”
— Suker / Suikerspin

A purple-lit raid encounter from the Icon archive — “If Wheiler signs up, we can go two times ten-man. What do you guys think?”
— Suker

Gurex and Icon members meeting in real life — “Every Icon meet has been an awesome experience for everyone who attended.”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

A Terrace of Endless Spring killshot — “Going to kill Ji-Kun heroic tonight.”
— Tootheater

Adventurers facing a magical battlefield — “The best movie ever made? Tell me you didn't love it!”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

Icon raiders forming up around an encounter — “If she gets the bags, can I get boobs? Show me the choice, please.”
— Swallow

Docile the Astral Walker overlooking the world — “Have a wonderful summer. Miss you guys!”
— Docile

An Icon recruitment image — “Not monk — moonkin! Hahahah!”
— Lol

Icon members gathered after a fight — “Who remembers these? :) ”
— Elgringø

A peaceful field in the World of Warcraft — “You don't need a rank to be active. Bring jokes, mood and kindness to your guildies.”
— Haz / Hazalrus

Hogarella and Docile together in-game — “No, I missed that one out on purpose!”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

A green-lit raid battle from Icon's history — “Go go Gadget promotion!”
— Naku

Hogarella at an Icon gathering — “Meeting, greeting, hugging — and lots and lots of drinking.”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

Icon and a faded shark — “This man makes me moist around the sex area!”
— Mushy

Heroes from across the World of Warcraft — “This video is everything The Raid was not — a really good documentary.”
— Docile

Icon members together in a winter zone — “Stop trolling Cow and get your ass back!”
— Elderberries

Icon fighting a boss at night — “Loled IRL. Fantastic!”
— Docile

Icon facing the Paragons — “If they accept guild-bank gold, then it's a deal!”
— Elgringø

A close Icon boss encounter — “Pro: dropping the green healing stuff. Fail: gripping foul stream into the raid. Epic!”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

Heroes of the Burning Legion era — “That's one sexy priest! No — that's one dead priest! Hahaha!”
— Elderberries

Another purple-lit Icon raid encounter — “All your cloth are belong to us — or guild kick, okay?”
— Aramaat

Icon overlooking a raid environment — “Am I too late, Hog? :D”
— Chopporz

A wide view preserved from the Icon archive — “Experience, loot, laughter and tears. It's there I understood what a guild was.”
— Haz / Hazalrus

Icon and the dead mountain — “Good luck, fella. Hope you kill lots of stuff!”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

An old-school Alliance party — “I think socials like that are awesome to have in Icon.”
— Prinsy

A full Icon guild line-up — “We miss you, mate. Get back in the game. It's just as boring as usual: kill farm bosses, wipe on progress bosses.”
— Bulligan

An early Icon fantasy landscape — “That's some sick driving skill!”
— Elderberries

Icon celebrating a first Pandaria boss — “Good stuff. Now try watching this without smiling.”
— Docile

An Icon character aboard a ship — “All this time playing WoW, I've never been to an actual guild meeting. Gotta change that!”
— Nikeehunt

A huge gathering of players in Orgrimmar — “It is going to be awesome to have a massive group — it could feel like the old times!”
— Fibre / Celvink

A Cataclysm harbour scene — “Great news. We'll do our maximum to come!”
— Haz / Hazalrus

A funny Icon screenshot from 2009 — “Messy kill. I suck and fail… blah blah.”
— Cowazaki

A gryphon rider from classic World of Warcraft — “Amg, amg, amg! Gimme, gimme, gimme!”
— Naku

An Icon spoiler alert from Siege of Orgrimmar — “That's about freaking time — of course it all goes to me! Muhahaha!”
— Elderberries

A Burning Legion portrait — “LOL — we have all got to transfer there, I reckon!”
— Elgringø

Architecture preserved in the Icon gallery — “A guild is not a democracy.”
— An old Wildhammer memory

Icon members gathered beneath their faction banner — “Experience, loot, laughter and tears.”
— Haz / Hazalrus

Icon marked for death in Blackrock Foundry — “Cool bananas.”
— Naku

Icon deep into a raid encounter — “Kill farm bosses, wipe on progress bosses. Just two more to go and we're done!”
— Bulligan

Adventurers travelling through Pandaria — “All your cloth are belong to us!”
— Aramaat

A broad line-up of World of Warcraft characters — “Good news! Very funky — I'm loving it.”
— Hogarella / Hogannum

An Icon raid in progress — “It could feel like the old times — a massive group or raid!”
— Fibre / Celvink

An Icon ten-man raid memory — “We can go two times ten-man. We have four tanks, four healers and twelve DPS. What do you think?”
— Suker

Troll adventurers in an ancient temple — “Loled in real life. Fantastic!”
— Docile

Icon putting pride before a fall — “Love it. It reminds me of my time in New York and Belgrade.”
— Haz / Hazalrus

Sixty-seven unique memories — voices and names preserved: Elgringø · Hogannum · Docile · Zeedeto · Geko · Darkmoon · Hazalrus · Frenschie · Chopporz · Mushy · Swallow · Shalcker · Naku · Blizzer · Shammadam · Pazzeros · Suker · Elderberries · Harder · Nikksen · Gurex · Cowl · and many more.

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